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External validation of a claims-based algorithm for classifying kidney-cancer surgeries
2009
BMC Health Services Research
Unlike other malignancies, there is no literature supporting the accuracy of medical claims data for identifying surgical treatments among patients with kidney cancer. We sought to validate externally a previously published Medicare-claims-based algorithm for classifying surgical treatments among patients with early-stage kidney cancer. To achieve this aim, we compared procedure assignments based on Medicare claims with the type of surgery specified in SEER registry data and clinical operative
doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-92
pmid:19500395
pmcid:PMC2698842
fatcat:6ee7evif6jgejc47bsau7sf4nm